The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-05-05
How Shall tho Democrlo Ticket
be SelectedP

be SelectedP
About once in six months Bro.
FranIz, the doughty editor Of the
Brandon Republican, stops defend
ing our weak State administration.
fighting Prohibition and calling
his contemporaries "bullet. headed
idiots" "hy.up.the.crecks," putty.
Drained fools" etc, long enough
to write n real sensible article. The
following from last weeks Rcpubli-
can is full of good advice and sound
Democracy, and we commend it to
our readers as quite as applicable to
the party in Lincoln a. in Rankin:
In November next, the good
people of Rankin will be called up
on to elpcU two members OF the
lower house of the State legislature.
Sheriff, Chancery Clerk, o
Treasurer, Surveyor, an Assessor,
Ranger and Coroner, and the
several beats member of the
Board of Supervisors, two Magis-
trates and a Constable each. These
offices are all more or less important
and the people should begin To cast
about for honest and true men to
ill them. Look around among
your neiyhbors and see if you can
find an honest and upright gentle
man who has the capacity to rerres-
ent YOU in the legislature, and who
Is willing TO make the race. If you
find such man, and his views
coincide with yours on questions of
vital Importance, attend the Beat
and County Convention Tor primary
election, if one he heidi, and do all
you can honestly to have him
nominated, but don't resort to
tIickery or dishonesty TO secure the
nomination or election Of any man.
If you fail to secure the nomiatlon
IF your friend and neighhor then
vote for the choice Of the convention.
and don't conclude that your friend
is the only man in the county fit for
the position, or that he was swim
died ont of the nomination. Re
member that other men have their
preferences as well rs you, and that
they are as much entitled TO their
preferences as you are. III
you have no friend you want to send
to the Legislature, perhaps You have
one who would make good Sheriff
or Clerk, or Treasurer, and You
should use your influence to have
him nominated, and in that case
/ YOU NAV he successful. We like To
ace men work for their friends in a
legitimate way, but We do diSpise
trckery. If Son take part in a
convention or primary election you
are in honor bound to abide the
result. and if you are not willing To
do that keep out.
We have heard OF some Democrats
who favor a "scrub-racc" are
opposed TO making nominations,
either by conventions or primary
election. We sincerely hope that
such Democrats are few and tar
between, as a scrub race in q county
like this would terminate in the
election Of full set Of Republics n
officials, as there will probably be
! from three to ten Democratic can
didates for every office, and especial
" for the legislature and the clerk
ships. Our only salvation is in
making nominations, and then
sticking to the nominees.
We prefer convention OF twenty
or thirty representative men from
each Beat, selected by a Beat
Convention, but if majority
prefer trying a primary election We
shall not object.
Now let all who want to run for
any Of the above Offices, make their
wishes known, that the people may
canvass their qualifications and
claims, and then let the Executive
Committee meet and decide when
and how the candidates shall be
nominated.